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Allegheny County Moves Tax Appeal Deadline to October 1 - Limited Time for Assessment Relief

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In Allegheny County, tax appeal season has already begun for 2025. For every tax year, County property owners have the ability to file an assessment appeal. ...more

Amundsen Davis LLC

Assessors Allowed to Use “Anticipated” Vacancy in Making Assessments

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Developer beware! In Wisconsin, assessors may use an “anticipated” vacancy in making assessments. Veritas Village LLC, the owner of a property with 189 apartments in Madison, contested the city's assessment of its property at...more

Maynard Nexsen

North Carolina Property Owners - New Property Valuations are out. How do I contest my valuation?

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Did you recently receive a real property revaluation notice? If you live in one of 21 counties across the state, the answer is yes! These counties revalued all of their commercial and residential property for ad valorem tax...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Lower 2024 Ratio - New Opportunities for Reducing Your Property Tax Assessment

In Allegheny County, tax appeal season has begun for 2024. Every year, County property owners have the ability to file an assessment appeal. But this year there are unique opportunities for an assessment reduction....more

Williams Mullen

Industrial Owners Seeking Fair Tax Treatment Should Differentiate Personal Property From Real Estate Values

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North Carolina taxes both real estate and personal property, but differing valuation schedules and processes for the two types can lead to confusion and inflated tax bills for industrial property owners. Understanding how...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

State Supreme Court Decision Results in Continued Taxing Body Appeals

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GM Berkshire Hills LLC v. Berks County Board of Assessment (2023 Pa. LEXIS 272, February 28, 2023) – – Split Supreme Court Ruling Enables Taxing Body Assessment Appeals Based on Recent Sales to Remain - Counties, schools...more

Cole Schotz

The Freeze Act Remains Alive and Well – Freezing in Place Tax Assessments For Two Future Years and Preventing Towns From...

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The Tax Court confirmed in a recently decided case, Levy v. City of Long Branch, decided May 5, 2023, that ”Freeze Act” protections afforded all judgments of the Tax Court and County Tax Boards apply unless appropriate proofs...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Marion County, Indiana, Set to Increase Many 2022 Property Tax Assessments 10% or More

Taxpayers in Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana, may be in for an unpleasant surprise when property tax bills are mailed out in the coming days. Based on assessment data available on the Marion County Assessor’s website,...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Lower 2023 Ratio, Court Case on 2022 Ratio, Extended Appeal Filing Period - New Opportunities for Lowering Your Property Tax...

In Allegheny County, tax appeal season has begun for 2023. Every year, County property owners have the opportunity to file an assessment appeal.  But this year there are unique opportunities for an assessment reduction....more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald Announces Opening of Special Appeal Period for 2022 Tax Year

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Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald today announced that a special appeal period for 2022 property assessments has now opened. Appeals may be filed by property owners or by taxing bodies for the 2022 tax year through...more

Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.

TO BUILD A POND: Does it impact your agricultural use exemption?

A landowner inherited a family timber tract located in Charleston County originally purchased by their grandfather as a timber investment property in 1936. Since that initial purchase, the family, through three (3)...more

Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.

The $27.3 Million Tax Cut Nobody Knows About

If you are a farmer, congrats, you are one of the chosen few whose property taxes likely have significantly dropped this year. That is because toward the end of this past Session and without much fanfare, the South Carolina...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Allegheny County Court Issues Injunction Lowering Common Level Ratio Impacting Tax Assessments Appeals

​​​​​​​Allegheny Court Judge Alan Hertzberg issued a preliminary injunction on September 1 lowering the common level ratio on real estate for 2020 sales of real property. Currently, the ratio in Allegheny County is 81.1. As a...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Now is the Time to Review Property Tax Valuations

Now is the time of year when counties are publishing, mailing or providing notices of property assessments as required by Ohio law. Ohio Revised Code 5715.17 provides that counties must give notice that valuation revisions...more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

APNs Do Not Define Title To Real Property

In a prior post from 2020, Money and Dirt covered an opinion from California’s Fourth Appellate District holding that an Assessor’s Parcel Number (APN), by itself, “does not necessarily demonstrate the actual, physical...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Nassau County Commercial Real Property Tax Alert

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Annual Survey of Income and Expenses – ASIE-2021Pursuant to the Nassau County Administrative Code, Section 6-30, the Nassau County Department of Assessment (“the Assessor”) is requiring the submission of 2021 financial data...more

Miller Canfield

Michigan Court of Appeals Upholds Taxpayer Recovery of Excess Tax Foreclosure Proceeds, Bars Multi-County Class Actions

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Key Takeaways - ..The Michigan Court of Appeals rejected an effort to allow class action recovery of excess proceeds from the sale of tax foreclosed properties. ..The Court ruled that the Michigan Supreme Court's 2020...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Campground owned by For-Profit LLC and used by Boy Scouts of America qualified for a 100% Indiana Property Tax Exemption

A taxpayer does not have to be a non-profit corporation for its property to qualify for Indiana’s charitable purposes exemption. The Indiana Board of Tax Review confirmed this in a final determination issued on November 9,...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Commonwealth Court Approves Assessment Appeals Based on Recent Sales and Cost Benefit Analysis

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In the continuing litigation between taxing bodies and taxpayers over how and when taxing bodies may file property tax assessment appeals, Commonwealth Court recently issued a decision clarifying when such appeals may occur,...more

Pullman & Comley, LLC

Upcoming 2021 Municipal Revaluations in Connecticut

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Forty Connecticut municipalities are scheduled to conduct real property revaluations effective October 1, 2021. A list of the larger revaluing municipalities appears at the end of this alert. A revaluation notice containing...more

Lowndes

2021 TRIM Notices: After the First Full Year of Covid-19

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This week, property appraisers from all 67 Florida counties will mail (or have mailed) Truth in Millage (TRIM) notices to property owners around the state, indicating the 2021 valuation for each property. If not already...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Best in Law: Should Your Business File a Property Tax Appeal?

Taxpayers Have Options to Contest their Property Tax Bill - In the past month, California property tax bills have become due. While some markets are hot and property values are rising, commercial property values have...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Frequently Asked Questions Relating to Your 2021 Colorado Commercial Property Taxes

Spring is in the air, and while for most people, that means budding tulips and birds chirping, for us real property tax lawyers, that means assessment time. Property owners in Colorado will receive their 2021 real property...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Quick Property Tax Cuts:  Indiana Board of Tax Review Final Determinations (June – August 2020) – market data necessary; purchase...

Reports should “set out the main points in a series of short, crisp paragraphs. . . . Let us not shrink from using the short expressive phrase, even if it’s conversational.” Winston Churchill (as quoted in The Splendid and...more

Snell & Wilmer

New Guidance Regarding the Property Tax Implications of the Occasional Commercial Use of a School-Owned Facility

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In general, school-owned land, facilities and buildings used for education and libraries are exempt from Arizona real property taxes so long as such areas are not used or held for profit. The question asked often was whether...more

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